Been a bit since making back to the site…We have since competed at the USARA National Championships.  We had a pretty good race but the bad nav bug was still biting (sorry Leslie, Kyle and Keith…we were fast…that’s another storyPQ).  Anyways, I took us out of first place by sniffing the point and turning away to only come back later to get the point and now we needed to tryand make up for lost time.  In a race with such talented competition, that is not a move that is easy to overcome. 

Team iMOAT had 2 teams and great crew.  Jason Winkelmann (our new main navigator), Kristi Darby, and the veteran Carlos Ibarra filled the first team with Leslie, Nathan, and I running the other team.

The weather did not cooperate like most of the Texas teams had hoped…with rain and cold temperatures the conditions wreaked havoc on the course and caused a lot od stress for the race directors.  I am impressed the course turned out as well as it did considering the amount of rewrites…I had little hope with the conditions yet the Parks Service, Terra Firma Promotions, and USARA managed to put together a tough race (with some help from Mother Nature)…I heard that if they had kept the last few points in the race the water had risen enough to put most of them in the water…that would have been fun trying to figure that out!!